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now almost entirely rased to the ground and its remnants in 

 great part removed; the other is the locality called Dugelava, 

 where there formerly existed a tank, which has since dried up 

 and the depression been levelled by the sand of the desert. 

 In the former place there are seven inscriptional records, and 

 in the latter twelve, of which two, however, are illegible. 



The Jain temple above mentioned was dedicated to Maha- 

 vira and built in the first half of the Samvat-century 1200. 

 Probably the shrine was completed some years before the ante- 

 chamber, which, it seems, was being executed in the Sam vat - 

 years 1244-48. The temple was destroyed in some Muham- 

 madan invasion, and its scattered remnants were in course of 

 time utilized for some construction in the neighbourhood. To- 

 day it is only a part of the antechamber that is still standing, 

 and it consists of six columns in red sand-stone, surmounted 

 by lintels most of the figures in which have been mutilated. 

 Of the two remaining columns one is lying on the ground and 

 the other is not found. The few other remains that are scat- 

 tered on the spot seem to have no particular interest, except 

 a lintel on which ten tirihakaras are carved, one seated in the 

 middle and the others at both sides of him. 



All the inscriptions are incised on the columns of the ante- 

 chamber; the three longer ones on the two central columns in 

 the front, and the others on the four columns in the back. 

 They are the following : 



(1) An inscription incised on the right central column in 

 the front, comprising 9 lines of writing, covering a space of 10" 

 broad by 7f" high. It opens with the date [Vikrama]— Sam- 

 vat 1241, Vaisakha sudi 7, and refers to the reign of Kelhana- 

 deva, when his son Sodhaladeva was enjoying the jagir of Ghah- 

 ghdnakapadra , apparently included in the territory of Maiida- 

 vyapura. The object of the inscription is to record a permanent 

 monthly provision of g dramma, made in the Mandavya- 

 puramandapikd by the Bhandari Yasovira— who is qualified as 

 a lord of Palla and a gunadhara— to the temple of Gharighanaka 

 for the annual expenses for the god Mahavira. 



Kelhanadeva is obviously the Cahamana king of Naddula, 

 of whom six inscriptions have been found by Mr. D. R. Bhan- 

 darkar (Ep. Ind., XI, pp. 26-79) with dates ranging from 

 Vikrama-Samvat 1221 to 1236, and one has come to light at 

 Paladi (Slrohi) bearing the date Vikrama-Samvat 1249. Ghan- 

 ghanaka is the modern Ghanghana, Mandavyapura Mandora, 

 and Palla Pala, the village near which the temple is situated. 

 The meaning of gunadhara is not very clear. The same word 

 occurs in the Jalora inscription of Samantasimha (V.S. 1353, 

 Ep. Ind., XI, pp. 60-62), and was taken by Mr. D. R. Bhan- 

 darkar as a proper name, but in the present inscription it 

 seems to be used as a title. I would explain it as ganadhara, 

 and all the more so as there are other instances of initial gana° 



